Quotes About Introspection

The journey begins by looking inside to find that guiding light of the Divine spark within us. The practice that leads us to that spark is meditation on the inner light and sound

Only one is a wanderer. And when she was sad, she'd go into the streets to be with people.

It's because we have little faith that we look within instead of without.

Avoid the crowd. Do your own thinking independently. Be the chess player, not the chess piece.

When I discover who I am, I'll be free.

I was looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which I, and only I, could answer. It took me a long time and much painful boomeranging of my expectations to achieve a realization everyone else appears to have been born with: That I am nobody but myself.

I feel the need to reaffirm all of it, the whole unhappy territory and all the things loved and unloveable in it, for it is all part of me.

I put on several different outfits. The advantage of not knowing who you are is you can attempt to be all things to all men … or women. My mother saw me always glancing in every mirror, every window; in the gleaming blades of knives. She said, "Jill is vain." She did not know I was looking to see who would be there this time.

But a man lies to himself, and never more so than he does about a woman.

True humility is intelligent self respect which keeps us from thinking too highly or too meanly of ourselves. It makes us modest by reminding us how far we have come short of what we can be.

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

You never know how you look through other people's eyes.

Thoughts come into our minds by avenues which we never left open, and thoughts go out of our minds through avenues which we never voluntarily opened.

Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.

At the gates of the forest, the surprised man of the world is forced to leave his city estimates of great and small, wise and foolish. The knapsack of custom falls off his back.

It is easy in the world to live after the worlds opinions; it is easy in solitude to live after your own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

All the thoughts of a turtle are turtle

Go cherish your soul; express companions; set your habits to a life of solitude; then will the faculties rise fair and full within.

To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in our private heart is for all men - that is genius.

A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within.

A man must consider what a rich realm he abdicates when he becomes a conformist.

All the thoughts of a turtle are turtles, and of a rabbit, rabbits.

Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity, is to genius the stern friend.

I, too late,Under her solemn fillet saw the scorn.